Re: Is Andreas Pour a Leftist?

quoth Andreas Pour:

| What good does it do, if you can avoid prison for having an unpopular
| opinion, but your landlord can kick you into the street, the grocery
| stores can refuse to sell you food, the hospitals can refuse to
| provide you medical care, the transportation companies can refuse to
| provide you with carrier services, the banks can refuse to provide
| you with the tools needed to conduct business, the employers (who
| monopolize the means of production) can refuse to provide you with a
| livelihood, and the landlords can refuse to offer you shelter?  Would
| you be not just as dead as if the State tried and executed you, w/out
| even having the due process protections the State is required to
| provide you (and w/ modern technology, such as microchip implants,
| there is a substantial danger of that, yes!)?

well, no.

just as you are free to boycott businesses whose policies are at 
variance with your views, surely businesses should be free to eschew 
the custom of customers with whom they disagree. the only place where 
you might have a valid argument is where there exists a monopoly, which 
applies to none of the examples you provided. (unless your beliefs 
include the belief that the rent should not be paid, that a trip to the 
grocer does not involve paying for the food, medical treatment ought to 
be free beginning with you, cabdrivers should be stiffed, that writing 
checks without funds to cover them is okay, and that showing up for 
work is a matter of personal convenience, in which case sooner or later 
word will get round and you will have a problem resulting from those 
beliefs, though by then you will probably be treated to room, board, 
work, and medical care provided by the state). 
-- 
dep

History doesn't move in a straight line, and irony is a dialectical 
hairpin. -- Christopher Hitchens

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